Agro businesses raked high profits in 2011

Saturday, January 14, 2012 09:57

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on Thursday hosted a conference to review the performance of all agricultural companies in 2011, concluding that they had closed the year with a high profit margin.

A rubber processing plant in the southern province of Dong Nai (Photo: SGGP)

In related news, Bui Ba Bong, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development instructed the tea industry to implement measures to increase value-added tea products, at a conference hosted the same day on tea export development.

Mr. Bong instructed the tea industry to hike the dried tender leave production to 260,000 tons by 2015, of which 200,000 tons will be exported to yield a turnover of US$440 million.

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